The potential of agricultural land management to contribute to lower global surface temperatures
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Warming reduction can be achieved globally through improved agricultural land management using existing knowledge and technology.
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Inorganic carbon sequestration by ERW appears comparable to SOC sequestration (~2.5 Gt CO2 yr -1 by 2100) using agricultural land, but with potentially greater long-term security of C-storage.
“Inorganic carbon sequestration by ERW appears comparable to SOC sequestration, another proposed CDR strategy (~2.5 Gt CO2 yr -1 by 2100) 27 using agricultural land, but with potentially greater long-term security of C-storage.”
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- Authors
- Mayer, A., Hausfather, Z., Jones, A. D., & Silver, W. L.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
- Corresponding author
- Mayer, Allegra
- Venue
- Science Advances
- Published
- 2018-08-03
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- eaaq0932-eaaq0932
- ISSN
- 2375-2548 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6114992
- OpenAlex
- W2889468088
- Cited by
- 59
- References
- 64
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- FWCI
- 4.44
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- Language
- en
- Open access
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- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Rathmann Family Foundation
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Keywords
- agricultural land management, soil organic carbon sequestration, climate change mitigation, global surface temperature, RCP2.6, RCP8.5, carbon sequestration rate
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